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- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
serves nearly 100 children, employs a staff of 30 caregivers, teachers, and administrators, and runs ancillary services that include a school, tailoring training, a small farm and greenhouse, a pharmacy, and...
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Margie Kelley
- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup
silk and apply it to food, creating natural protection that slows spoiling and keeps food fresher for longer. Products can be integrated at any time from farm to shelf, allowing food producers, processors, and retailers to deliver more...
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Entrepreneurship
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
site, as we neared the site, we noticed hundreds of small greenhouses alongside the road. From their signage, the crops ranged from vegetables to flowers. We had driven into the heart of the country’s world-class horticulture industry and...
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- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at a Startup
silk and apply it to food, creating natural protection that slows spoiling and keeps food fresher for longer. Products can be integrated at any time from farm to shelf, allowing food producers, processors, and retailers to deliver more...
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- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
English-origin peoples. Pickles were also important in Jewish cuisine. 54 Henry Heinz, 1880. The young businessman hoped to develop a larger market for his products. In the early 1870s, he saw an important opportunity to do this. Most existing canneries and condiment...
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by Nancy F. Koehn
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
813-019 The case centers on the dilemma faced by Carlo Fontana, the owner-operator of a small chain of two four-star urban hotels located in Lugano, Switzerland, and the other in Milan, Italy. Having developed an extensive customer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest...
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- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
their education system different from ours? What is their farming system that's different from ours, or similar to ours? So I always seek out to meet the locals. April White: So how did your love of travel become WildChina? Zhang Mei:...
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- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53636 Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Using the farm tractor...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
management policy, which aimed at assuring a more secure environment for business. By the early twentieth century, however, the focus had shifted, from business to labor. As a result of industrialization, a great many workers had moved from the View Details
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by Laura Linard
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
innovators alike grapple with both the impacts of climate change and how to build a more sustainable system for the future. Right now there is enormous opportunity (and need!) for strategic thinkers and do-ers to bring fresh energy and passion to the industry. Look for...
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Energy / Cleantech
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
innovators alike grapple with both the impacts of climate change and how to build a more sustainable system for the future. Right now there is enormous opportunity (and need!) for strategic thinkers and do-ers to bring fresh energy and passion to the industry. Look for...
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Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
hair salon, a donut shop, and a hip burger restaurant, and students worked in small teams on problems such as marketing, finance, sales, and growth strategy. Making Robotics Fly HUBweek, a civic collaboration founded by The Boston Globe,...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
professors Pearson Hunt and Gordon Donaldson), which has been used by more than 300 universities. The faculty was relatively compact and small when I joined HBS; the curriculum and the way courses were organized and taught was quite...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
innovators alike grapple with both the impacts of climate change and how to build a more sustainable system for the future. Right now there is enormous opportunity (and need!) for strategic thinkers and do-ers to bring fresh energy and passion to the industry. Look for...
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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
beyond West Wind, he passes the high-tunnel greenhouses that Pine Mountain provides to local farmers. “In many ways, it’s like running a small town,” says Marietta, casting his eye across the potato fields and chicken coop that help...
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- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020....
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- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
areas. Nestlé, for example, redesigned its coffee procurement processes, working intensively with small farmers in impoverished areas who were trapped in a cycle of low productivity, poor quality, and environmental degradation. Nestlé...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
country's lead in innovation. “R&D is a critical part of the innovation process, but it is not the whole thing” In this excerpt, Pisano and Shih discuss the concept of the "industrial commons." In the past a commons—a shared farming...
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